Reply #82: This bugs me enough to make me want to reply again

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Look, I don't know where you think that's an indignity limited to women: that same damn thing happens to every single one of us, and the charismatic usurper is not always male. Come to think of it, I've never even had a male boss in 12 years of working, which may be why I've never understood the "old boys club" arguments.

Senator Clinton was elected to the Senate in a state she had a tenuous-at-best connection to running solely on her last name (this is not a jab at women; plenty of men have run solely on their last name too). I really don't see how she's in a position to complain about the fickleness of the mob.

Sadly, you said it right: "this is personal". This election needs to be bigger than whatever sense of personal validation a phalanx of Clinton supporters imagine they would feel at her election.